The first farms and towns, sentence 6
Some people became potters, builders, priests or leaders, and villages grew into towns.
Who acts: people, villages · What happens: become, grow · To what, where: potters, towns
This is a sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, villages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | potters | potter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 builders | punct |
| 6 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 potters | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 priests | punct |
| 8 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 potters | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 leaders | cc |
| 10 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 potters | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grew | cc |
| 13 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 towns | case |
| 16 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | some people | potters and builders and priests or leaders | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | villages | into towns result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into town=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:6.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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